On Apr 29, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Ben Goren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Tom Martin via EV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The state in turn sent you a 'Certificate' of title. The auto you bought >>> and paid for is the property of the state. >> >> Huh? >> >> The Certificate of Title establishes *you* as owner of the car. Not the >> state. > > I think Tom might be coming from a certain Libertarian perspective that says > that, if the State can confiscate or otherwise render valueless your > property, especially if you stop paying taxes ("rent" in those circles), then > it's the state that owns whatever it is. > > I haven't heard this applied to a vehicular title, but it's certainly a > common theme with property taxes. > > b&
Hadn't heard that, but I would think that the argument wouldn't require that a Certificate of Title be issued by the state. Just stop registering your car, or don't pay your taxes. I used to work for an environmental group where the head of our office wasn't paying his taxes as a protest or something. Unfortunately, he didn't take taxes out of his check on the organization's side either. We had to pay a huge bill, and almost had to close the office to boot. Sheesh! _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
